NBA commissioner David Stern is on record for preferring the league move to a 20-year age limit and two years removed from high school, up from the current 19-year age limit.

Although NCAA officials support Stern's stance, they are powerless in the ongoing negotiations between the league and the NBA Players' Association.

"All of the various rules in the different sports are initiated by the leagues themselves," NCAA executive Bob Williams told ESPN. "We don't have anything to do with it. We can't have anything to do with it because of antitrust concerns.

"We can't be a part of it. We're not involved in the labor (agreement). Whatever they decide to do, then we can react to it. There is no collusion with the NBA and the NCAA. That can't be further from the truth. There is no involvement with us. There can't be."